Suck it, John Fogerty. Now that I have heard the Baseball Project’s “Don’t Call Them Twinkies,” your crappy “Centerfield” is no longer the best song about baseball (thank God).
The Baseball Project is compiled of musical all-stars (Dream Syndicate’s Steve Wynn, plus R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey) and they teamed with Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn to pen the ultimate ode to small market baseball and the Minnesota Twins (a team with the unfortunate “Twinkies” nickname). While I’m not a fan of the Twins—I choose to suffer watching my Oakland Athletics every summer—the song is a fantastic rundown of both the state of Minnesota, from St. Paul to St. Cloud, and their scrappy baseball franchise, from Zoilo Versalles to Kirby Puckett. It’s better than any song from Heaven Is Whenever, and my favorite line has to be “I prayed more in the dome than I ever did in church.”
Then again, it’s not like there was much competition when it came to Twins songs.
End Hits: He’s right. Ron Gant was clearly out.
Oh man, I saw an amazing Twins game in the Dome a couple years back. That place is absolutely amazing–and for some reason, out of all the stadiums I’ve been to, the female Twins fans were not only the hottest, but also the best dressed.
Yay! Thanks Pat, not that your comment was directed to me. But I grew up going to Twins games and every time I go back home I make sure to catch a game. The dome WAS fun, now we have an outdoor stadium. Great to see you threw the current up there. I stream them all day on my computer.
People still watch baseball?
All I know about the Twins is that their mascot looks like the Hamm’s Beer Bear and that Joe Mauer is devastatingly handsome.
You can now resume talking about sports.